Traktor x1 how to#

Once you’ve set up the control for deck A, make sure that command is highlighted in the Assignment table and then hit “Duplicate”. You must also change the “Type of Controller” setting to be ‘encoder’.So the left one for me, was set to deck A. You can now deselect “learn” but you need to make sure before you move on, that you select the correct ‘Assignment’ for it to control.Select ‘Learn’ so that it turns yellow and then move the encoder that you want to use as your jog wheel.Under the “Deck Common” you will find a command called ‘ Jog Turn‘, select this.Now in the lower half of the preferences pane, the “Assignment table”, select ‘Add In…’ to create a new command to map.Inside of Traktor open up the controller manager inside the preferences and in the very top section called “Device Setup” select ‘Add…’ to load in another mapping.Then all the buttons and knobs are fair game for you to map to whatever you want. All you have to do is hold down shift and HotCue on your X1 controller to enter generic midi mapping mode. It’s quicker, more responsive and feels great! Generic Midi Using an encoder for this, feels way closer to the real thing and in my opinion feels like you have a little more control as you can turn the encoder either way. I personally don’t like using buttons to nudge the tempo of a track as it has never felt responsive or intuitive to me. Now I know the newer X1 has a touch strip on it which can be used to beat match, but for those that just don’t feel that the touch strip is tactile, or satisfying enough to use for beat matching then the following is going to be perfect for you. So long as you have a midi controller with an encoder on it, you can get something close to the feel of the ‘real thing’.

Traktor x1 how to#

Or you simply want to learn how to beach match, yet you don’t have turntables or jog wheels. Or, if like me, you believe that the essence of DJ’ing, is beat matching two records together and you have more fun that way. This often happens because it’s either not created by a computer, or it’s been sampled into your laptop from a vinyl record and as such may not be perfectly captured in time. Sometimes a track you play just has not got the beat grid set up correctly and it goes out of sync. Now there’s a number of reasons why you might want to manually beat-match by ear.